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- 211: Benjamin Franklin
- ... time in this life, Franklin suffering from many ailments of old age. He often had to be literally carried to the meetings. He was later elected as president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Ben Franklin died on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84.. After a fine public funeral from the city, he was buried next to his wife in Christ Church Cemetery of Philadelphia ...
- 212: Alexander I
- ... established. Nevertheless, despite the humanitarian ideas implanted in him by La Harpe and despite his own wish to make his people happy, Alexander lacked the energy necessary to carry out the most urgent reform, the abolition of serfdom. The institution of serfdom was a disgrace that kept Russia in a disastrously backward state. But to liberate the serfs, who composed three-quarters of the population, would arouse the hostility of their ...
- 213: Abraham Lincoln 3
- ... antislavery agitation were passed by the house, Lincoln and a colleague, Dan Stone, defined their position by a written declaration that slavery was "founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." An internal improvement project that Lincoln promoted in the legislature turned out to be impractical and almost bankrupted the state. On national issues Lincoln favored the ...
- 214: Artist: Turner: Outline
- ... the normal tendency was to look back to the past rather than to create a style in keeping with the advances of other fields. 2. Events that took place throughout Turners life. a) Turner supported abolition and painted The Slave Ship between 1833 and 1840 the emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies began. b) Turner wanted to have a marriage between art and industry and painted Rain, Steam and ...
- 215: Abe Lincoln
- ... on April ninth 1865, did General Robert E. Lee surrender his army to the Union. The great life of Abraham Lincoln was only polished off by his magnificence in the time of war, and the abolition of slavery. He was a great man in every sense of the word and showed his dignity and grace in everything he did. Not until much later was the legend of him solidified in the ...
- 216: Karl Marx
- ... established his "intellectual standing." From December of 1847 to January of 1848, Engels and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto, a document outlining 10 immediate measures towards Communism, "ranging from a progressive income tax and the abolition of inheritances to free education for all children." When the Revolution erupted in Europe in 1848, Marx was invited to Paris just in time to escape expulsion by the Belgian government. He became unpopular to ...
- 217: Book Report On Thomas Jefferson
- ... Mary College, then entering politics in Virginians House of Burgesses in 1769. Jefferson married Martha Skelton on New Year's Day, 1772. With the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1779, Jefferson formed the groundwork for abolition of entail and primogeniture, for the establishment of religious freedom, and not for the public school system. Jefferson was of course the author of the Declaration of Independence, and because he had set this document ...
- 218: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- ... active in the Bible and Missionary Societies of her church. In 1826 Elizabeth then anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems. Two years after that her mother passed away. The slow abolition of slavery in England and mismanagement of the plantations depleted the Barrett's income. In 1832 Elizabeth's father sold his rural estate at a public auction. He moved his family to a coastal town ...
- 219: Peter The Great
- ... own military justice. Many of the administrative changes were ineffective and temporary. The changes influenced the nature of the tsardom and the society. One of the most radical reforms of Peter the Great was the abolition of the Patriarchate and the establishment of the Holy Synod. Peter the Great had a typical attitude towards religion as an absolutist ruler of the eighteenth century. He resented the Church's ignorance, conservatism, and ...
- 220: Oliver Cromwell
- ... and assured them that he was not committed to any particular form of government and had not had any underhand dealings with the King. On the other hand, he opposed extremist measures such as the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords and the introduction of a more democratic constitution. But Cromwell's efforts to act as a mediator came to nothing when Charles I escaped from Hampton Court ...
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